WORK IN PROGRESS
Why is biodiversity an important insight?
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The crop varieties comes from the number of active crop plans (details here: Insights Detail). YouThe non-crop biodiversity comes from GBIF and can be increased by recording sightings on https://inaturalist.org/app.
Suggested improvements
Low hanging fruit:
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Add more categories:
fungi
spiders
reptiles
mammals
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Further subdivide plants into:
lichens
mosses
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Need to see changes over time, perhaps with a slider or line graph (# of species in each category at a certain date)
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List of categories and subcategories:
Animals
Birds
Arachnids
Amphibians
Insects
Mammals
Reptiles
Plants
Cultivated
Non-cultivated
Fungus
For animals, plants, and fungi, we’ll need a way to represent cultivated and non-cultivated biodiversity. With regard to plants, this is relevant now. Additionally, by the end of the year we’ll have the ability to document livestock on your farm. That would fall under mammals but there should be a visual way to distinguish between livestock you’re raising and those you’ve observed.
Screens:
Trends for all categories
Searchable observation catalogue
Search bar
Filters:
Date range
Source: {“GBIF”, “Observation”}
Category tile view
Individual species hybrid page
Detail page
Name
Picture
Source
Description?
Observations on the farm (pins on farm map preview)
Observed on* (could be date or date ranges)
Observed by* (could be 1 person, many, or GBIF)
Observations page:
Each observation as a card?
Other suggestions:
Comparison of users farm against the average for “similar” farms elsewhere
Integrate with eBirdLandscape diversity (numbers of habitat types, proportions of each habitat type)
Presence of natural areas, hedgerows, riparian buffers, etc.
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